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Re: Background-image only shows in Design Mode

franck — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:10:39 GMT

Hi,

I don't believe that you can. But, I won't bet my life on it!

Franck Dauché

Re: Background-image only shows in Design Mode

dtobias — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:51:48 GMT

Franck,

Many thanks for the tip. That did work.

Do the resource files have to be local or could load them from a Web site? IE, would this work:
<xsf:file name="http://www.infopathdev.com/images/IPDLogo.gif">

Re: Background-image only shows in Design Mode

franck — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:35:58 GMT

Hi,

It is because you are missing a reference to yor gif in your manifest.xsf.

If you have a gif called: aa.gif.

In the xsl, you should have (as you did): body style="background-image:url('aa.gif')"

Then, in your manifest, you should add:
<xsf:file name="aa.gif">
<xsf:fileProperties>
<xsf:property name="FileType" type="string" value="resource"></xsf:property>
</xsf:fileProperties>
</xsf:file>

and you need to copy your gif locally....

Hope that it helps.

Regards,

Franck Dauché

Background-image only shows in Design Mode

dtobias — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:50:19 GMT

I am trying to set a background image for the entire form. To do this, I have extracted the form and edited the body tag in view.xsl to be:

<body style="background-image:url([Absolute Path]\blue_gradient_background.gif);">

When I then open the form in design mode the background image appears. However, when I preview or open the form to add data the background does not show.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a weird bug in InfoPath?

Thanks